Wednesday - Still Wondering ...

There was a little bit of headway happening on my website yesterday. I added all the mosaics that are no longer available through Etsy. Nothing has changed, prices are the same but purchasing items from this site requires using PayPal. I have no problem with that. I hope my customers won't either. However, during a thunderstorm last night, the website went down. I sent a message to the support team and they've responded and are checking it out. I'm guess it's something weather-related. I'll post an update on Friday.

Meanwhile, I wanted to share some of the art I've been doing over the past week or so. As a side-note: I make my own Gesso using baby powder, paint, glue and water. It's very easy to make. If anyone wants the recipe to make their own Gesso, send me a message or comment here on the blog and I'll share it.

I covered Gesso on 4 inch wooden art boards and am starting a layered painted paper technique I learned a few months ago. I truly love this technique and use it often.

First layer down! This layer gets some paint on it, then another layer of paper, some sanding and a stain or glaze on top. After that is all dry I usually add a cut out from a painted paper and some circles in acrylic paint. And almost always some wise words of advice such as what I am sharing below.

These are not layered although I was going to make them in that technique. I liked these papers a lot in the first two and decided they would look great with some dots and circles and Asemic writing too! The last one was fun to do. I used strips of cut up painted papers to make a collage.

 

 

Taking painted papers that are not all that great and cutting them up this way to use as fodder for collage is awesome!

 

I've begun to call the collage I am doing "paper mosaics". I used to call them that back in 2012 when I first made some collage using old business cards of mine. I prefer thinking of them as paper mosaics. It seems to suit me.

 

Here's hoping you are all having a good week. Here in our area, we are dealing with warmer than normal temperatures and then rain and thunderstorms too, but nothing like some are experiencing throughout the US. Sending lots of healing vibes and good thoughts to them all.

 

I'll be back on Friday with an update on my website plus a nice promo about my art on Fine Art America. Hope you like it!

 

Enjoy the journey.

Cindy aka EarthMotherMosaics

https://artbyearthmothermosaics.com